What parts of this harvest season do you want to save? It is harvest season and we really want to know what part of this season’s harvest you want to save… and I’m not talking in metaphors. We hosted a live webinar on canning...
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Our Cherries and Essential Oils are ‘in a Jam’ We picked and pitted 50lbs of cherries in the last 3 days. I’m glad to say our counters are cherry free for the moment – unless they’re in jars becoming wine, in the...
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Cherry picking was a great success! We went to Ayer’s in Cana, Va. It’s about an hour and a half from here, but so beautiful. They were sweet enough to let us in to pick a day early, so we had the orchard nearly to ourselves. Eliza...
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these are now ready for consumption through the winter. Not having a lot in the way of spare moments to sit and type and share…summer is far from lazy! If we’re not cooking up something to put in jars, we’re visiting friends at...
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Here’s hoping more of you will share here. I love peeking through internet windows into other people’s gardens…it’s easier if you tell me where to look. Anyway, this month has been the busiest garden month & it’s...
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::A Simple Afternoon Project: So you can’t keep EVERY painting, coloring page & scrap doodle, but you can re-use some of them! We’re all about printing on the back of old copies, painting on trash-mail, recycling unwanted...
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Our Attempts to Taper down our Plastic use It’s report-card time. I’m giving myself a mark on the no-bag month of February. C+. We were about 50/50 which would normally be an F-, but we learned a lot (& my opinion is that should I...
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